Machine-stand



W. H. FERGUSON.

MACHINE STAND.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 6, I9l9.

1,371,154. a ented Mar. 8, 1921.

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MACHINE STAND.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 6,1919.

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WILLIAM H. FERGUSON, OF SPRAY, NORTH CAROLINA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HQLF TO Gr. A. DILLON, OF SPRAY, NORTH CAROLINA. l

MACHINE-STAND.

Application filed June 6,

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, \VILLIAM H. FERGU- soN, a citizen of the United States. residing at Spray, in the county of Rockingham and State of North Carolina. have invented new and useful Improvements in Machine- Stands, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in bases for sewing machines and the principal object of the invention is to provide means which will permit the work to travel around the cloth plate of the machine without hindrance.

Another object of the invention is to provide means for guiding the work to the machine or to its attachments.

Still another object of the invention is to provide means for preventing oil or grease from getting on the work as it passes under the work plate.

The invention also consists in certain other features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, to be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and specifically pointed out in the appended claims.

In describing my invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings wherein like characters denote like or corresponding parts throughout the several views. and in which Figure 1 is a view showing a table with my improved base supporting a machine thereon;

Fig. 2 is an end View of the base;

Fig. 3 is a plan view thereof;

Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section;

Fig. 5 is a side view showing how blocks are used for making the guiding edge adjustable.

In these views 1 indicates a sewing machine table, to which my improved base 2 is secured by screws or the like and 3 indicates the sewing machine. This machine is power driven by the mechanism shown generally at 4. My improved base is of rectangular form, as shown, and consists of the bottom 5 the side pieces 6 and the ends 7. A space is formed at one end of the base between the bottom 5 and the sides thereof by cutting away the iower parts of said side pieces andmaking the end piece of semicircular form with its apex spaced above the upper Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 8, 1921. 1919. Serial No. 302,129.

face of the bottom. A curved plate 8 is secured to the said end and the lower edges of the reduced parts of the side pieces. A cross side pieces at the junction of their reduced parts with the main parts. and the curved plate is secured to the bottom edge of this cross piece which is rounded similar to the end piece. Thus a receptacle is formed which has a curved bottom located above the bottom of the base and this receptacle is located under the needle mechanism of the sewing machine when the same is placed on the base. Thus the work being sewed may pass under said receptacle along the curved plate without hindrance and said plate will prevent the oil or grease dripping from the mechanism of the sewing machine from soiling the work. I

It will thus be seen that pillow cases and other articles may be easily handled by my invention as the spaced projecting portion will permit the endless articles to travel around the cloth plate of the sewing machine without hindrance.

I locate the inner wall of this space in the same vertical plane as the folding edge of the hemmer so that the work is kept straight and thus a hem produced of uniform size throughout. \Vhen a different sized hemmer is to be used I may secure blocks 10 in position under the projecting part of the base to keep the edge walls in the same plane with the hemmer. These blocks may be secured in position in any desired manner.

By keeping the bottom edge of the cross piece 9 above the bottom a space is left through which any dirt or drippings may. be removed from the interior part of the base. 1

One of the side pieces is provided with the recesses 11 for receiving the hinge members of the machine so that said machine piece 9 has its ends secured to the may be tilted upwardly on the base to permake changes in the construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, provided that such changes fall within the scope of the appended claims.

What I clain1 iS:

1. A sewing machine base comprising a main portion and a projecting portion having a rounded bottom spaced above the bottom plane of the main portion and adjustable guiding means at the junction of the projecting portion with the main portion and located below the rounded bottom.

2. A sewing machine base comprising a bottom. sides secured thereto and each including a main part and an extension projecting from the upper corner thereof and spaced from the bottom and a curved plate secured to the lower edge of said extensions.

3. A sewing machine base comprising a bottom, sides secured thereto and each including a main part and an extension projecting from the upper corner thereof and spaced from the bottom, a curved plate secured to the lower edges of said extension, an end piece secured to the ends of the extensions and having a curved lower edge secured to the curved plate and a cross piece connected with the inner ends of the extensions and having a curved lower edge connected with the plate.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

WILLIAM H. FERGUSON. 

